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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 1236-1238Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001236
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR-01192] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [EB-00293] Funding Source: Medline
- NCPDCID CDC HHS [NCI-91717] Funding Source: Medline
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A novel endoscopic optical coherence tomography probe was designed and constructed with a 1.9-mm micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) motor. The new MEMS endoscopic probe design eliminates the need to couple the rotational energy from the proximal to the distal end of the probe. Furthermore, the endoscopic probe's sheath and fiber have the advantages of having a much smaller diameter and being more flexible than traditional endoscopes since no reinforcement is needed to couple the rotational torque. At the distal end, a prism mounted on a micromotor deflects the light rays to create a transverse circular-scanning pathway. Because our MEMS scanner does not require the coupling of a rotational single-mode fiber, a high scanning speed is possible while eliminating unstable optical signals caused by nonuniform coupling. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.
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